Example sentences of "[pron] thought it [modal v] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew his death would be a release , but I thought it would be terrible , that I would suffer . |
| 2 | ‘ I thought it would be useful to lay hands on the original tape — the conversation between Court and the American . ’ |
| 3 | Right I put this together ah very quickly just before you came in , I thought it would be useful to get some feedback on the education the two educational events that have taken place so far , now unfortunately I could n't go to Topping Printing but you were there Ann |
| 4 | I had an actor once who was condemned to hang for stealing a sheep — or a lamb , I forget which — so I got permission to have him hanged in the middle of a play — had to change the plot a bit but I thought it would be effective , you know — and you would n't believe it , he just was n't convincing ! |
| 5 | I thought it would be extraterritorial , out of society , forming its own new universe . |
| 6 | I thought it would be great down there , but I started having a bad time so I went back to Newcastle . |
| 7 | ‘ I thought it would be great — in fact I thought it would be someone to have fun with all the time , ’ remembers Martha . |
| 8 | It was my first job and I thought it would be great , ’ she said . |
| 9 | After observing the industrious building of castles in the air in the past few days , I thought it would be appropriate to look at an odd phenomenon that has puzzled meteorologists for the past ten years : the series of giant mushroom-shaped cloud formations round the periphery of the Siberian land-mass . |
| 10 | ‘ As I told you , I spent some time writing letters and when I 'd finished I thought it would be pleasant to get some fresh air so I went out and posted them — in the box outside the main post office — ’ |
| 11 | I thought it would be cool : - ) Now EVERYONE can have one … steal my thunder a bit , I think the away top with HUMPHRIES on the back will be cool for work : - ) |
| 12 | Andrew 's coming home for the weekend so I thought it would be nice to have a drinks party . |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , my dear , that 's why I thought it would be nice to say a little prayer , to remind our dear Lord to take care of him . ’ |
| 14 | It 's very difficult for an English group to make it there , so I thought it would be nice to a French one because I quite admire that conservative spirit . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , I have three children of my own now and I thought it would be nice to surprise them with the sugar mice on the tree , and also the chocolate cat . ’ |
| 16 | Having made the Hannover picture I thought it would be nice to have a smaller version , so I now have a two-metre square version on canvas , also painted with Scanachrome , and I am working on the area of the television screen in a more painterly manner than I was able to use on the large one . |
| 17 | When we were outside the house , where no one could hear us , she said : ‘ As nobody is out at this time I thought it would be nice to go to that field which is full of melons . |
| 18 | I thought it would be nice ; he 'd asked me specially . |
| 19 | Sometimes I thought it would be nice … to have someone . |
| 20 | Feeling pleased that I had at least negotiated the day 's essentials , and the afternoon being well advanced , I thought it would be good to have a more leisurely look round Wenceslas Square and find somewhere to eat . |
| 21 | ‘ I thought it would be good to be free to get on with my own affairs , ’ she said , ‘ but I suffered quite severe depression . |
| 22 | Before I approach BIFU with a view to them taking this up for bank staff ( and others ) in general , I thought it would be good for staff morale and also for our members if we adopted a practice which was , after all , in use in 2,550 BC . |
| 23 | Well I thought it would be good to have a lie in . |
| 24 | I thought it would be beneficial for him . |
| 25 | Erm , cos cos three , stating three things , are n't there , and I thought it would be easy |
| 26 | I thought it would be okay . |
| 27 | I thought it would be evident ; you are generally very quick on the uptake . |
| 28 | I said I thought it would be OK but I would phone him back if not . |
| 29 | I thought it would be fun to do it , she 's a man but her own person and very outrageous . ’ |
| 30 | I thought it would be fun to discover from old volumes I possess how Punch handled the elections of 1906 , 1910 and 1919 . |